Hi,
I am interested in Telugu localization and submitted a ticket as per instructions.
How ever I am not a technical person and needs to learn quite a bit.
I know there are few GPL fonts in Telugu and OLPC has Telugu keyboard layout.
So here are my 2 questions

1) How will I find out what font OLPC uses for Telugu, so that I can use the same for my translations?
I am not even sure if this is a relevant question.

( I am currently using RTS with SCIM in Ubuntu machine with English keyboard as per instructions. )
How ever I want to use the font OLPC uses.

2) If I do not have technical ability to start Localization, At least, I want to get all the words for core projects
as a text file so that I can translate in my computer and manually enter them when some brighter person starts
localization. So it possible to get the words as text file so that I can start the process.

Hi,I am interested in Telugu localization and submitted a ticket as perinstructions.How ever I am not a technical person and needs to learn quite a bit.I know there are few GPL fonts in Telugu and OLPC has Telugu keyboardlayout.So here are my 2 questions

1) How will I find out what font OLPC uses for Telugu, so that I can use thesame for my translations?I am not even sure if this is a relevant question.

( I am currently using RTS with SCIM in Ubuntu machine with English keyboardas per instructions. )How ever I want to use the font OLPC uses.

2) If I do not have technical ability to start Localization, At least, Iwant to get all the words for core projectsas a text file so that I can translate in my computer and manually enterthem when some brighter person startslocalization. So it possible to get the words as text file so that I canstart the process.

Hi,I am interested in Telugu localization and submitted a ticket as perinstructions.How ever I am not a technical person and needs to learn quite a bit.I know there are few GPL fonts in Telugu and OLPC has Telugu keyboardlayout.So here are my 2 questions

1) How will I find out what font OLPC uses for Telugu, so that I can use thesame for my translations?I am not even sure if this is a relevant question.

As Walter pointed out - we are currently going forward with the Lohitfonts wherever possible for the Indic languages.However you can use any font while you translate, as long they areUnicode compliant. Examples of such fonts would be Pothana2000 andVemana2000.

( I am currently using RTS with SCIM in Ubuntu machine with English keyboardas per instructions. )How ever I want to use the font OLPC uses.

2) If I do not have technical ability to start Localization, At least, Iwant to get all the words for core projectsas a text file so that I can translate in my computer and manually enterthem when some brighter person startslocalization. So it possible to get the words as text file so that I canstart the process.

Yeah - you can get the PO files which you can edit in your computer.To start with, for example, you can start with Sugar. The PO file canbe downloaded fromhttps://dev.laptop.org/translate/am/xo_core/sugar.po and you can useany editor that you prefer to work on it.

It struck me as I read this request for assistance that it would begood to create a file of all basic XO terminology on Pootle. Thiswould not be used in any individual software code, but would allowpeople to find out how we say "computer" or "keyboard" or "screenrotate button" or "keyboard switching key" in a uniform manner. Wewould not be able to draw on this file directly in software, becausein languages other than English these terms would be inflected or havegender or other attributes.

Hi,I am interested in Telugu localization and submitted a ticket as perinstructions.How ever I am not a technical person and needs to learn quite a bit.I know there are few GPL fonts in Telugu and OLPC has Telugu keyboardlayout.So here are my 2 questions

1) How will I find out what font OLPC uses for Telugu, so that I can use thesame for my translations?I am not even sure if this is a relevant question.

( I am currently using RTS with SCIM in Ubuntu machine with English keyboardas per instructions. )How ever I want to use the font OLPC uses.

2) If I do not have technical ability to start Localization, At least, Iwant to get all the words for core projectsas a text file so that I can translate in my computer and manually enterthem when some brighter person startslocalization. So it possible to get the words as text file so that I canstart the process.

Note one of the major challenges that will be faced as translations aremade to some languages is choosing appropriate local languageterminology. Some of the languages we already need to translate to(e.g. Aymara, Quechua) do not have an existing terminology to draw upon,from what I gather; someone fluent in that language will literally beworking on this problem without having other examples to draw upon.

This will be common as we wander away from the small number of languagesusually localized to.

So I agree entirely....

Some of this clearly is related to the HIG, so copying Eben: we shouldensure the HIG is consistent with this terminology lexicon.- Jim

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 13:08 -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote:

It struck me as I read this request for assistance that it would begood to create a file of all basic XO terminology on Pootle. Thiswould not be used in any individual software code, but would allowpeople to find out how we say "computer" or "keyboard" or "screenrotate button" or "keyboard switching key" in a uniform manner. Wewould not be able to draw on this file directly in software, becausein languages other than English these terms would be inflected or havegender or other attributes.

Hi,I am interested in Telugu localization and submitted a ticket as perinstructions.How ever I am not a technical person and needs to learn quite a bit.I know there are few GPL fonts in Telugu and OLPC has Telugu keyboardlayout.So here are my 2 questions

1) How will I find out what font OLPC uses for Telugu, so that I can use thesame for my translations?I am not even sure if this is a relevant question.

( I am currently using RTS with SCIM in Ubuntu machine with English keyboardas per instructions. )How ever I want to use the font OLPC uses.

2) If I do not have technical ability to start Localization, At least, Iwant to get all the words for core projectsas a text file so that I can translate in my computer and manually enterthem when some brighter person startslocalization. So it possible to get the words as text file so that I canstart the process.

Note one of the major challenges that will be faced as translations aremade to some languages is choosing appropriate local languageterminology. Some of the languages we already need to translate to(e.g. Aymara, Quechua) do not have an existing terminology to draw upon,

There was an article some years back about Rwanda starting to addressthis in Kinyarwanda, and I assume that Soyombo has addressed theproblem in Mongolian. But yes: KreyÃƒÂ²l in Haiti, where existing Frenchterminology would only be a start; Hazaragi in Afghanistan, Oromo andTigrigna in Ethiopia, and many other languages face this problem.

I just checked on online English-KreyÃƒÂ²l dictionary. It has konpite forcomputer, but nothing for keyboard. Perhaps klavye? Here is anotherword for computer: ÃƒÂ²dinatÃƒÂ¨ (from Fr ordinateur).

from what I gather; someone fluent in that language will literally beworking on this problem without having other examples to draw upon.

This will be common as we wander away from the small number of languagesusually localized to.

So I agree entirely....

Some of this clearly is related to the HIG, so copying Eben: we shouldensure the HIG is consistent with this terminology lexicon.- Jim

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 13:08 -0800, Edward Cherlin wrote:

It struck me as I read this request for assistance that it would begood to create a file of all basic XO terminology on Pootle. Thiswould not be used in any individual software code, but would allowpeople to find out how we say "computer" or "keyboard" or "screenrotate button" or "keyboard switching key" in a uniform manner. Wewould not be able to draw on this file directly in software, becausein languages other than English these terms would be inflected or havegender or other attributes.

Hi,I am interested in Telugu localization and submitted a ticket as perinstructions.How ever I am not a technical person and needs to learn quite a bit.I know there are few GPL fonts in Telugu and OLPC has Telugu keyboardlayout.So here are my 2 questions

1) How will I find out what font OLPC uses for Telugu, so that I can use thesame for my translations?I am not even sure if this is a relevant question.

( I am currently using RTS with SCIM in Ubuntu machine with English keyboardas per instructions. )How ever I want to use the font OLPC uses.

2) If I do not have technical ability to start Localization, At least, Iwant to get all the words for core projectsas a text file so that I can translate in my computer and manually enterthem when some brighter person startslocalization. So it possible to get the words as text file so that I canstart the process.